Object-event-performance : art, materiality, and continuity since the 1960s / edited by Hanna B. Hölling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hölling, Hanna B., 1975- editor.

Series:

Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world.

Cultural histories of the material world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Conservation and restoration.

Art.

Art--Philosophy.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Installations (Art)--20th century.

Installations (Art).

Object (Aesthetics).

Performance art--20th century.

Performance art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bard Graduate Center, [2022]

Summary:

"Much of the artwork that rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century took on novel forms - such as installation, performance, event, video, film, earthwork, and intermedia works with interactive and networked components - that pose a new set of questions about what art actually is, both physically and conceptually. For conservators, this raises an existential challenge when considering what elements of these artworks can and should be preserved. This provocative volume revisits the traditional notions of conservation and museum collecting that developed over the centuries to suit a conception of art as static, fixed, and permanent objects. Conservators and museums increasingly struggle with issues of conservation for works created from the mid-twentieth to the twenty-first century that are unstable over time. The contributors ask what it means to conserve artworks that fundamentally address and embody the notion of change and, through this questioning, guide us to reevaluate the meaning of art, of objects, and of materiality itself. 'Object--Event--Performance' considers a selection of post-1960s artworks that have all been chosen for their instability, changeability, performance elements, and processes that pose questions about their relationship to conservation practices. This volume will be a welcome resource on contemporary conservation for art historians, scholars of dance and theater studies, curators, and conservators"-- Dust jacket flap.

Contents:

Introduction: Object

event

performance / Hanna B. Hölling

1. Introducing "Fluxus with tools" / Hanna B. Higgins

2. Exhausting conservation : object, event, performance in Franz Erhard Walther's Werkstücke / Hanna B. Hölling

3. Video art's past and present "future tense" : the case of Nam June Paik's satellite works / Gregory Zinman

4. Resurrecting Hannah Wilke's Homage to a Large Red Lipstick / Andrea Gyorody

5. Mutable and durable : the performance score after 1960 / Alison D'Amato

6. Sometimes an onion, sometimes an artwork : Simone Forti and the choreographic logic of objects and institutions / Megan Metcalf

7. In the viewshed : land (art) preservation and collective constituencies / Rebecca Uchill

8. Enlivened pieces : Richard Tuttle at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975 / Susanne Neubauer

9. The cheapness of writing paper and code : materiality, exhibiting and audiences after new media art / Beryl Graham

10. The propensity toward openness : Bloch as object, event, and performance / Johannes M. Hedinger and Hanna B. Hölling.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hölling, Hanna B. Object, Event, Performance

ISBN:

1-941792-23-5